Chianna learned about George Washington in school today. I asked her what she learned about and we talked about how he was the 1st president. She said that she would want to switch places with him and change the rules so that parents had to do homework and not kids. The fact that we already had to do homework when we were kids didn't change her mind.
In a rare event, I made dinner tonight. I made fish for Chianna because she loves fish. As we were eating, I asked her if it was good. She said "not too much". In her matter of fact and honest way. Before I could ask what was wrong she finished her sentence with "because you don't cook good." (OUCH!) I started to get offended, but calmed myself and said that its ok to say you don't like it, but its not really nice to say I don't cook good. She just looked at me with a blank stare, shrugged one shoulder and said "well, it is". (ROUGH, HUH!?) Myke and I both commended her on telling the truth, but I don't think she functions any other way, which is a good thing, even when the truth hurts! LOL So now, here comes the real kicker. I asked, "well what could I have done different to make it taste better?" And she, again rather matter of factly said, "look at Daddy cook."
Yesterday Chianna decided to name our new car "Bumble Bee" (after the Transformer). She had previously named her little blue Mini car Bumble Bee, but she clarified that she changed her car's name to "Dinosaur". She then named Myke's car "Lion" and Baba & Pa's car is "Dr. Seuss"!
She has been wanting to bring her stuffed animal reindeer, Rudolph to school since we have been back from Christmas break. Rudolph is very special because Santa brought him to Chianna even though she didn't specifically ask Santa for him, but saw Rudolph in the store after she saw Santa. She is impressed that Santa and the Elves knew about her wanting Rudolph and delivering! : )
Evidently there is a time when they have recess that they are allowed to bring out a toy and play and share it. Last week we told her she could take Rudolph to school with her on Tuesday and she was counting down the days, because it was a MAJOR event to her. She even didn't want to sleep with him on Monday night for fear of forgetting to put him in her backpack Tuesday morning! This deer comes every where so that was shocking.
So, Tuesday night we pick her up from school and I asked her all about Rudolph's day at school. She was telling me all about it and said that she only let girls touch her deer "because boys have germs". So I giggled with her a little and smiled and said that was ok and she decided to elaborate that girls have germs too, but boys' germs are yucky and she doesn't like boys. She will only like boys when she is older and gets married when she has a boyfriend.
Of course this is all news to Daddy who is perfectly happy with boys being yucky and germy in her eyes!
I received this email from FightForTheFuture.org and figured I share it as a good way to end the blackout on my blog. Not that I post to it everyday anyhow, but it's just the principle.
"Today was nuts, right?
Google launched a petition. Wikipedia voted to shut itself off. Senators' websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them. NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks.
You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before. Tech companies and users teamed up. Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms. The free network defended itself. Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: from today forward, it will be much harder to mess up the internet.
Approaching Monday's crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA. Last week there were 5. And it just takes just 41 solid "no" votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate. What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach.
But don't trust predictions. The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have the votes to pass. Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but they don't understand why--so they're easily duped by superficial changes. The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical. Here are two things to think about:
1. Plan on calling your Senator every day next week. Pick up the phone each morning and call your Senators' offices, until they vote "no" on cloture. If your site participated today, consider running a "Call the Senate" link all next week.
2. Tomorrow, drop in at your Senators' district offices. We don't have a cool map widget to show you the offices nearest you (we're too exhausted! any takers?). So do it the old fashioned way: use Google, or the phonebook to find the address, and just walk in, say you oppose PIPA, and urge the Senator to vote "no" on cloture. These drop-in visits make our spectacular online protests more tangible and credible.
That's it for now. Be proud and stay on it!"
You can also see my article for South Florida Internet Marketing Association on the SOPA Protest: SFIMA Blog
I'm not sure about everything that was covered in Chianna's school about Martin Luther King Jr. but evidently this is what she got out of it: 1. He'd dead. 2. It's a sad story. 3. He was good. 4. He was shot in the head by a bad man. (YIKES!) 5. There is a statue of him that she wants to see. (likely because she probably thinks it shows what happens when you get shot in the head?)
Anyone else think that "shot in the head" is a bit graphic for 1st grade? I didn't really probe any further to find out who told her that, I just figured I'd stop the conversation there before it got any worse with more questions that I can't or don't want to answer to a 6 year old.
Chianna learned some where that when she is asking something from daddy, she should turn her head to the side, smile, and say "pleeeease" really sweet while blinking her eyes. She tells me tonight: "I have a special eye thing, I do it on daddy, you should try it too, Mommy."
So as you may know or have guessed, Chianna loves dinosaurs. It is her favorite thing. She got this awesome set of play dinos from Uncle Jack & Auntie P for Christmas and it had all different little dinos in it and a few cavemen too. She announced to Uncle Jack as soon as she opened it that she would not be playing with the people, she only wanted the dinos. (Hey, at least she is honest, I guess?) So the other day she opened it and was pretty insistent about not wanting the people. So Myke and I convinced her to keep the people and pretend they are riding the dinos or something like that. Evidently she was mostly upset because she didn't want to have to pretend play that the dinos ate the people! So I thought I would remind her (although I knew she already knew) that people didn't live the same time as dinosaurs did. She said "I know Mommy, it is just a toy." In a very "duh" tone. I thought it was pretty hilarious. Soon she will be schooling us all on the history of dinosaurs. I'm pretty sure she will discover what really happened to them.
Eating dinner the other night and Myke was having black eyed peas. Its not something we have often, so he says to Chianna, do you know what this is? It's The Black Eyed Peas. You know, they sing the song "Tonight's Gonna' Be A Good Night". (Chianna loves that song.). And she looks at him, puts her ear down to the plate and looks up and says with all seriousness. "I don't hear it."
Since a couple weeks ago when Myke taught Chianna to walk like a zombie and "eat brains", she has been breaking into zombie mode every now and then trying to 'get us'. Last night she comes out doing her zombie walk after us, but got it a little wrong, she was chanting "mind, mind, mind!", Myke and I lost it laughing. What a funny moment that was.
We have been watching Christmas movies the whole month. We have all 3 Santa Clause movies. Myke and I have always loved them. We watched 1 and 2 already with Chianna this month and today we put on The Santa Clause 3: the Escape Clause. This is the one when the evil Jack Frost tricks Santa into saying he wished he was never Santa Claus and reverts back to the day he became Santa by putting on the jacket 12 years prior. Jack Frost becomes Santa and the last 12 years of Santa's life is re-written, definitely not for the better. During the process where he is not Santa anymore. Poor Chianna became inconsolable! She was crying hysterically, one of the worst crying episodes I have seen her have! We had to pause the movie and try to comfort her and explain that we should watch the rest to see how Santa saves the day and assured her it would be ok! We ended up finishing the movie and she was very happy in the end, but it was a real rough patch there! For those of you who know Chianna know she hardly ever cries and it really takes something big to upset her so much. Leave it to Santa!
I took Chianna shopping today so that she could pick out something for Daddy for Christmas. I asked her if she knew what she wanted to get him, dreading that she would ask to go to the mall. (Dreading it since I waited so long.) But she said rather quickly, "Santa Lights". I then remembered that we were all in Home Depot a couple weeks ago and we were thinking about getting these particular lights. Evidently Chianna did not forget at all! So I had a few errands to run and while in the car, Chianna was going on (and on) as she does about when she grows up and has a baby that she wants to live where there are moose. I don't know what brought this on other than she has this new little toy moose from Papa.(She has been carrying it around non stop since Papa got this for her at IKEA the other day. Today it spent most of the day in her pocket and also she tucked him in the seat belt in the car for safety!) Although she does often talk about wanting to live where it snows. Which is odd because Myke and I do too, but we don't really talk about it to her. So she is babbling in the backseat about living where moose live - on another planet, of course! Which she realized and corrected and said another state. Then she says "and I won't have a car, my baby and I will ride a moose"! A moose? I exclaimed, and she matter of factly said yes. Then she broke into singing Jingle Bells but changed the line from a horse to a One Moose Open Sleigh - HEY!
Then after singing she went on and on insisting that we would not live near her, because she wants to visit us in Florida and we need to be "in pieces"! I asked if she meant "apart" and she said yes. I couldn't figure this out for the life of me, but she seems really serious about it and even instructed me "can you tell Daddy, please"? I don't know if it is her independence or just some idea she has in her head, but being far away from my baby, "in pieces" doesn't sound so good to me!
Today Chianna and Daddy were playing, he taught her to walk like a zombie and say "must eat brains". So she was doing this at lunch, walking around pretending to eat everyone's brains, when something clicked as to what she was doing and saying and broke 'zombie mode' to say, "Brains? I'm gonna' be smart!"
Merry Christmas or Feliz Navidad (sort of) from Chianna!
This was filmed Christmas 2010. Chianna learned this song for her school show, so we made our own show with her as a soloist!
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Merry Christmas!
This was filmed Christmas 2010. Chianna learned this song for her school show, so we made our own show with her as a soloist!
See all our videos on our YouTube Channel
We watched The Santa Clause 2 tonight and after it was over, she ran around the house saying "Dasher, on Dasher, and Dasher and Dasher". We explained to her that it is all of Santa's reindeer, but she would have none of that. "Only Dasher!" While tucking Chianna in to bed tonight, she informed me that she wanted a pet dinosaur to fly her to school. She is going to name him Dasher. She is very matter of fact about it too.
We got her to bed a little later than usual since tomorrow is no school, and I read a book to her. After the book was done, I tucked her in and said I would send Daddy in to kiss her goodnight. At this point she always hides in her "egg position" as if she can't be seen like that, for a game with Daddy where he can't find her. But she was very sleepy tonight. Today was a big day at school, last day before Christmas break and they had field day too. She said in her sweet little sleepy voice. "I'm very sleepy, I don't want to play with Daddy when he comes in but I don't want to hurt his feelings, I only want a hug. Can you tell him, Mommy?"
Last night Myke sat down with a big sigh.
Chianna: "What's wrong, Daddy?"
Myke: "My feet hurt."
Chianna: "Yeah, I have that problem too."
Me: {{{Literally ROFL}}}
It may not sound that funny in print, but in the context of things, that is an odd thing to come out of her mouth and is sounds funnier when she says it.
Chianna has this thing she has done for a while, mostly playing with Myke when she is trying to get him to stay in one place, she pretends she is taping him down, and says "tape, tape, tape, glue, glue, glue" as she is pretending to tape and glue him in place. A couple weeks ago, she must have overheard us talking about how we needed some Gorilla Glue for some pesky gluing job around the house and the other day, she was playing with Myke as usual and added to her mantra: "tape, tape, tape, glue, glue, monkey glue!"
Where does she get these ideas? Chianna asked me to put drops in her eyes tonight before bed to "wash away the bad dreams". She has had this idea since before she could communicate it with us. Its strange yet smart and innovative too!
Evidently this works because the next morning on the way to school, she told me all about the dream she had that her and I were swimming with mermaids. (Or dolls with tails, as she calls them!)
Last year was the first year that Seaworld did their Christmas Celebration and we loved it so much, we decided to make it a tradition and go every year. Besides lighting up the park with their Sea of Trees, the have Christmas shows and convert the polar expedition train ride into the Polar Express. They also have a fabulous dinner with Santa event that is really amazing. It is a buffet of great holiday food, the elves come to visit and pour hot cocoa, Mrs. Claus servers her fresh baked cookies AND Santa takes time out of his busy schedule to come and visit, tells the story of The Night Before Christmas and sings Jingle Bells with the elves. Before he heads back to the workshop, he makes time to visit with all the children one by one and Seaworld gives us a picture of it too!
Here are some more pics of our fabulous time.
Yes, my little daredevil goes on this, and screams "yee haw" on the way down!
Here they come. . .
And there they go!
I really love riding Atlantis too, but I had a bit of s snifle and didn't want to chance getting wet and then sick right before Christmas!
Chianna's quote @Target "Mommy, let's buy some Santa Milk for Daddy!" (Egg Nog w/ Santa's Pic on it.)
So Chianna and I are on the Tilt-A-Whirl (after many other spinning rides) and after the ride really started spinning, her squeals of delight turned into: "I don't know, I don't know, I think something is coming out!" Luckily nothing came out, but now I have another funny Chianna-ism! LOL
Myke was making dinner. Chianna: Daddy, I'm so hungry, I can't wait! Myke: I am cutting as fast as I can. Chianna: Cut faster! Myke: I'm using a knife, if I go too fast I might cut myself! Do you want me to cut myself? Chianna: I'm sorry, Daddy, I lose my mind! I lost it and I don't know when I find it!
We hold you in our heart and touch you in our dreams. You are here each day with us, at least that's how it seems. We know you wonder where we are... what's taking us so long. But remember child, we love you so and that will keep you strong. Now go outside and feel the breeze and let it touch your skin... Because tonight, just as always, we blow you kisses in the wind. We promise you, darling, we're doing all that we can do. Very soon, you'll have a family for real, not just pretend. But for tonight, just as always, we blow you kisses in the wind. May our love wrap you up and hold you very tight. And let the angels bring the kisses that we send to you each night.
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